127 Inspirational Quotes for Business Success and Growth

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't — you're right."

- Henry Ford

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Have the end in mind and every day make sure you're working toward it."

- Ryan Allis

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

- Jack Welch

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

- Jeff Bezos

"Customer service is not a department. It's everyone's job."

- Tony Hsieh

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!"

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Timing, perseverance and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

- Steve Jobs

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

- Debbi Fields

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

"When things get hard (which they will), your WHY needs to be strong enough to keep you going."

- Ali Bonar

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

- Richard Branson

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow."

- Anthony Robbins

"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success is not the absence of failure, it's persistence through failure."

- Aisha Tyler

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be."

- Reid Hoffman

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."

- John Maxwell

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team."

- Reid Hoffman

"Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything."

- William Rosenberg

"You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve."

- Marc Benioff

"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over."

- Richard Branson

"If you must doubt something, doubt your limits."

- Price Pritchett

"The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are."

- Ursula Burns

"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them."

- Kevin Stirtz

"Invest in the tools that will save you time, money, and headaches in the long run."

- Barbara Corcoran

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

- Jack Canfield

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

- Andrew Carnegie

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

- Norman Ralph Augustine

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging."

- Warren Buffett

"You don't need to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."

- Michael Dell

"To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks."

- Bill Gates

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow."

- Ingvar Kamprad

"It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point, you are bound to stumble. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher and higher, the law of averages predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves."

- Steve Jobs

"Customer experience is the next competitive battleground."

- Jerry Gregoire

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"If it doesn't scare you, you're probably not dreaming big enough."

- Tory Burch

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I'm changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"I failed my way to success."

- Thomas Edison

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

- Pablo Picasso

"The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda."

- John C. Maxwell

"Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else."

- Sara Blakely

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Play by the rules, but be ferocious."

- Phil Knight

"The right tools can amplify your efforts and turn a good idea into a great business."

- Tim Ferriss

"Tools are great, but they only work when they're in the hands of someone who knows what to do with them."

- Neil Patel

"You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea."

- Larry Page

"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."

- Yvon Chouinard

"If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large."

- Jeff Bezos

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."

"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

"Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."